#lovewars

Cultural Appropriation is tearing us apart and it is getting harder and harder to know the rules. We have individuals spanning different cultures. We have people being accused of it when they are already part of that culture! We have people being accused of it when the actual people in the culture don’t even know the history or significance behind the element.

How about Cultural Evolution? People can trace the source of a cultural element back, but we won’t have to tell talented kids that they need to pick a different genre to sing because their face doesn’t match the music. We won’t have to tell kids who want to fit in with their friends that that while their friend can do it, they don’t have the proper (distant) ancestors.

Religious sacred rites, icons, etc. are off limits.*

Celebrate your heritage! Let people know where the music/fashion/whatever came from. But like any invention, let’s let it grow and see what happens. Otherwise, it will stagnate and die.

Hopefully, somewhere down the road we’ll all be the same color anyway.